EC: It’s an honour to work with you. Your art jewellery project is incredible! Would you like to share with us your idea behind this new collection? MOD: First of all, thank you for your kind words. I’m delighted my work fits your vision of small sculpture as wearable art.The Winter Branches are an ongoing stream feeding the flow of Doner Studio. As I walk the forests as well as urban streets my eyes follow the wonderful branching patterns of trees. For years I have picked up small twigs, their dynamic patterns mostly flattened underfoot. They became an unplanned collection detailing the genius of variety, growth, and form in nature.The jump to jewellery was spontaneous as well. I left the cast bronze twigs dark as the wood they once were, and old cut diamonds both brought them light and replicated the sense of dew, or a touch of frost, a nod to their life in different seasons. EC: I find that your art has this special connection with underground energies. How would you describe the relationship between your large-scale works and art jewellery? Does the latter engage with the same energies as the former? MOD: Both the jewellery and large […]

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to announce a unique collaboration with acclaimed American artist Michele Oka Doner, resulting in an extraordinary art jewellery collection. The collection is an homage to “The Botanic Age”—a time long before the Stone Age, when plants and trees were central to human development and creativity. Dr. Dean Falk’s research at Florida State University positions this era as the true cradle of civilisation, where botanic inventions like woven baskets shaped our cognitive and cultural evolution long before we wielded stone tools. Drawn from Oka Doner’s profound connection to the natural world and human history, her designs serve as spiritual meditations of this era, reflecting a time when humans were stewards of the earth rather than its masters. Her message resonates powerfully in today’s world as we face the consequences of “Plant Blindness,” a term recently coined to describe how the Industrial Revolution has distanced humanity from the natural world. The collection is a call to action for a New Botanic Age. Oka Doner’s work is distinguished not only by her evocative vocabulary of natural forms but also by her ability to transform these forms into talismanic objects that resonate with elemental energies. Her creations are not […]

Salon Art + Design Booth B6 7-11 November 2024 Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is delighted to announce its first participation in the 13th edition of Salon Art + Design 2024, New York. With an eclectic selection of wearable artworks, the gallery is proud to present jewels by world-famous visual artists, as well as experimental creations by exceptional jewellery designers. It will be a unique opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to immerse themselves in the fascinating world of wearable art – from classic masterpieces to bold experimentations. Among the twenty artists on display, we are thrilled to launch an exclusive collaboration with incredible American artist Michele Oka Doner. The collection comprises five one-of-a-kind Winter Branch brooches, a bronze Talisman pendant, a sculptural necklace, Nightflight, adorned with huit-huit old cut diamonds, and a treasure box, Mitosis, in limited edition. The pieces reverberate with the talismanic elemental energy that distinguishes Oka Doner’s practice and places it among the most magnetic and evocative works in contemporary art. Meticulously crafted in bronze, old-cut diamonds, 18kt gold, silver, and electroformed bark – a beautiful piece of wood that she retrieved from the Hudson River upstate many years ago –, each piece serves not only as an […]

Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto “Each time I make a jewel it’s a new challenge because I know that what I create is meant to be worn and cohabit with the body.” – Giampaolo Babetto Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to present an unprecedented selection of jewels by Giampaolo Babetto. Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto, will open at the gallery on the 10th of October and run until the 18th of October. Collectors, friends, and art jewellery enthusiasts are invited to our opening on the 10th of October from 5 to 8 pm. As one of the most influential exponents of the Padua goldsmith school and avant-garde jewellery since the 1960s, Babetto has redefined the concept of art jewellery worldwide. The exhibition features thirteen unique works conceived from the 1970s to the present. The works include rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, and a bracelet – gold corporeal architectures that come alive through the incorporation of ethereal and vibrant materials such as colourful glass, niello, ebony, and velvet-like pigments of luminous primary colours. The pieces are geometrical kaleidoscopic compositions that possess their own life and create a symbiotic and unique aesthetic relationship with the wearer’s body. […]